Chuck is a big man, with limited social skills and a penchant for
off-color humor, good (or at least expensive) food, much drink, and
especially any media of a military or naval character. His favorites are
naval tactical simulations. He carries a cutlass wherever he legally
can, and fancies himself somewhat of a pirate. He is in fact a fairly
good forger, who is sought after throughout the subsector. Chuck is
dangerous with a cutlass, in all senses of the word. He has been taken
care of by a number of underworld leaders, who have need of his
services, but realize that he needs watching. It is not unusual for him
to have a sidekick, who is actually a minder. It is not that Chuck is
naļve, but rather that he does not have any sense of where he himself
fits. He is very well-read on history, especially military and naval
history, and in fact can be rather a bore about it; he also understands
the types of forgery and forgery detection methods across the various
tech levels, from TL4 to TL15. In spotting or evaluating a potential
forgery, he is to be treated as Forgery-5.

His father was, he was told, a pirate captain who was killed in a
raid while leading his crew in a boarding action. The details may have
been embellished, but Chuck’s reality centers around his father as a
mythical and heroic pirate, which he has unsuccessfully emulated. He was
never able to be a pirate, but had a gift for both the written word and
falsifying it; he has become in fact a pirate in the sea of documents.
He is also rather a buffoon, however valuable he may be to his minders.

Aboard ship, if he is on a commercial vessel, he will often be mostly
kept in his cabin, often playing at commercial simulations of fleet
combat. More frequently, his “mission” will require him to go
“incognito”, so his minders will have him go by low berth. It is about
the only way that these poor souls can keep him from doing something
criminally stupid. He has a record of arrests and charges for assaults,
assaults with a deadly weapon, brandishing, and disturbing the peace;
most have been dismissed, under suspicious circumstances.